| Title |
Jack Goodman, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998 |
| Alternative Title |
Accn 998, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Jack Goodman |
| Description |
Transcript (71 pages) of interview by Leslie Kelen with Jack Goodman on November 16, 1987 for the Interviews with Jews in Utah Oral History Project. |
| Creator |
Goodman, Jack, 1913-2003 |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949-; Oral History Institute |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1987-11-16 |
| Date Digital |
2015-07-06 |
| Access Rights |
I acknowledge and agree that all information I obtain as a result of accessing any oral history provided by the University of Utah's Marriott Library shall be used only for historical or scholarly or academic research purposes, and not for commercial purposes. I understand that any other use of the materials is not authorized by the University of Utah and may exceed the scope of permission granted to the University of Utah by the interviewer or interviewee. I may request permission for other uses, in writing to Special Collections at the Marriott Library, which the University of Utah may choose grant, in its sole discretion. I agree to defend, indemnify and hold the University of Utah and its Marriott Library harmless for and against any actions or claims that relate to my improper use of materials provided by the University of Utah. |
| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993 ; New York City, New York, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5128581 |
| Subject |
Jews, American--Utah--Interviews; Goodman, Jack, 1913-2003--Interviews; Radio broadcasting--United States |
| Abstract |
Jack Goodman (b. 1913) talks about growing up, his schooling, and his career in journalism. He recalls working for the New York Post and the New York City Radio Station during World War II, and coming to Salt Lake City, Utah, to work for KALL Radio after the war. He talks about politics in Utah, the civil rights and socialist movements, and his move from newspaper and radio to television. 71 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
71 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Is Part of |
Interviews with Jews in Utah collection, 1982-1988, http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv70657/ |
| Scanning Technician |
Niko Amaya; Halima Noor |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6mg9j73 |
| Topic |
Jews, American; Radio broadcasting |
| Setname |
uum_iju |
| ID |
905554 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6mg9j73 |
| Title |
Page 51 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_iju |
| ID |
905532 |
| OCR Text |
Show days, on television you'd run--we, in those days, were dependent on newsreel footage which would come in, as it were, by special delivery or on network feeds. L: Now, had you switched to television, to work in television? J: I switched to television around 1949, '50. What happened there was Time Life Magazine bought Channel 4 from Sid Fox who owned KDYL and KDYL-TV. When they came in here, the manager they brought in was a man named Ben Larsen. G. Bennett Larsen who was a native Salt Laker but who had run WINS, no, WNEV.7 in New York which was the daily news station. When he came in he got ahold of me and said, "Hey, Jack, you're one of the few people here that knows both news and radio. Television is a kind of a combination of newsreel and radio. Why don't you come to work for us." Well, by that time I had three children, I guess. The wages at the Tribune and KALL were never great. Time Life station was going to pay New York scale. Was going to pay a much better wage. So I went to work for them. I switched over. I didn't feel any particular pangs about it. And set up their news department. In those days, we were on Social--well, first we were in a little building above an old post office branch that was on 1st South, Regent Street. Then we moved to Social Hall Avenue and by that time the Civil Rights Movement was corning along and virtually everything we did was either newsreel or network. There was not going on here. You interviewed maybe a liberal college professor or two and asked questions like 50 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6mg9j73/905532 |
